Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 2 | The Zuccarelli recordings so far demonstrated could well have been made with a simple dummy head , incorporating reflectors or circuits to emphasise this effect . |
| 3 | At first it was thought the men may have been stabbed with a broken pool cue . |
| 4 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 5 | The existence of possible bilingual wordplay within the poem — fol and con — suggests that Dame Sirith may have been composed with a bilingual audience in mind , but it does not match the features of the Anglo-Norman fabliaux identified by van den Boogard . |
| 6 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 7 | This obviously is n't to say that the same response would not have been achieved with a centesimal potency , it merely demonstrates the applicability of LM 's in an acute and the simplicity of repetition . |
| 8 | Saturday was sunny and bright , and any claim that the match would be settled by tomorrow evening would have been dismissed with a scornful cackle . |
| 9 | They may have been written with a wider audience in mind and are therefore easier to read than , for example , some of the accounting standards . |
| 10 | These will have been issued with a fixed redemption value and we must assume that the holder calculated that this would give him a return equal or similar to alternative returns currently available . |
| 11 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |